Sunday, November 08, 2015

And a phone Call from the Chancellor

Berlin Accomplices:The German Government role in the VW scandal from Spiegel online via The Automatic Earth. At the end "In the end, VDA President Matthias Wissmann was able to win over the chancellor. On the morning of the Commission meeting, several of those involved say, Merkel called Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. At the end of the conversation, the discrepancy to conformity factor had been decided upon: 2.1.

Perhaps, though, that should be seen as progress. The automobile industry, after all, wasn't able to get everything it asked for."